Cbse Class 3 Ncert Evs Syllabus - 0

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.
COM
DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM
III
CLASS III
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Questions
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
1. Family and Friends

1.1 RELATIONSHIPS
My family
Who all live with you at
home? How are they
related to each other? Do
you have relatives who do
not live with you? Have
they always been there?
How many children did
your grand parents have?
Who do you think will be
your new relatives in
future?
My family and me
Do you look like anybody
in your family? Have you
learnt anything from
anybody in your family?
Whom do you admire
most among all your
relatives? Who is the most
caring and patient person?
When do you meet
members of your family
who do not live with you?
Concept of a family; Childs

daily
life Obser vation, enquiry
diversity in family types; experience;
Family about family relations
Family as a support members.
from adults, discussion.
system, Ideas about
relationships; Simple
family tree (three
generations).
99
Syllabus
for
Classes
at the
Elementary
Level
Family influences Family members, local
physical characteristics, knowledge, story/poems
values and habits, on different festivals.
appreciating qualities and
skills of family members;
family as a support
system.
Whom do I look like?

Do some of your Concept of similarity
relatives look similar? between
relations,
Which features are similar hereditary features.
eyes, ears, the voice or
Observation, exploring
from elders about
extended family, narrating
stories/singing poems
related to festivals, writing
about any festival,
drawing.
Family photographs; Discussion About stories/

Narrations by elders about films/jokes involving
family members when twins
they were young.
Questions
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
Sensitivity to the old and

physically challenged;
Introduction to the sense
of hearing and sight;
sensitization to the fact
that the body ages, also
that some children may
not hear /see at all or may
be partially affected.
Basic idea about Braille.
Meri bahen sun nahin sakti

a book by Bharat Vigyan
Samiti or any other
material on differently
abled children.
Reading and discussion;

Making different kinds of
sounds and expressing
likes and dislikes about
them.; blindfold act,
visiting any local institution
that deals with the blind or
any other institution.
Exploring childrens ideas

about a plant. Plant
diversity; size, where they
grow, shape, colour,
aroma, etc.; dependence
on plants for everyday
life. Introduction of new
plants/crops and changes
observed by elders over
time. Plants and the
climate/environment.
Childs
daily
life
experience, observation,
information
from
grandparents/ elders, a
sample/picture of a plant
which is unusual in the local
surroundings.
Observation of different
plants around, compare
and classification based
on simple characters;
Discussion about things
made of plants, pencil
prints of barks, leaf prints.
height? Are there any two

people in your family who
look exactly alike?
Old and the physically
challenged
Do you know of people
who are hard of hearing?
Are many of them old?
Do you have any friends
who cannot hear/see well?
Is there any way in which
you may have helped
them? Are there any
sounds you like but
others/elders do not?
Syllabus
for
Classes
at the
Elementary 1.2 PLANTS
Level
Plants around us
100
How many different kinds
of plants do you see
around you? What are the
differences you notice?
What things around you
are made of plants?
Is there a plant in your area
that was not there when
your grandparents were
young?
Do you know of some
plants which do not grow
around you, say things that
we eat and not grown
around you?
Questions
Leaves in our lives

What different kinds of
leaves do you see? Do you
use plant leaves to eat on?
In what other ways are
leaves used?
Is there some time of the
year when lots of leaves
fall to the ground? Are
they burnt? Have you seen
a compost pit?
What leaf motifs do you
find on clothes, pots,
walls, animals, etc.? Do
you decorate your house
with leaves on some
occasions?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Leaf diversity colour, Childs

daily
life
shape, texture, aroma, etc. experience, observation, a
Seasonal shedding of story on a compost pit.
leaves; compost from
leaves.
Leaf designs/motifs on
different objects.
1.3 ANIMALS
Animals: small and big
Which are the smallest and Exploring childrens ideas
the biggest animals you of an animal.
have seen? Which have you
only heard about? Which
animals have tails? How
many legs?
Some creepy crawlies

and flyers too
What different kinds of Exploring childrens ideas
small crawling animals do of crawling animals, flyers
you know? Where and and insects.
from what does each of
Suggested
Activities
Observation, collection of
different leaves, smelling
different plant leaves,
discussion, visit to a
nearby compost pit,
decorating the classroom
with leaf motifs.
Applying mehndi on palms
in different designs.
101
Syllabus
for
Classes
at the
Elementary
Level
Childs
daily
life
stories/ poems on animals
(NBT)
Observation of diversity
of animals around you,
listing, Discussion about
what they eat, were they
live relative size of animals
they have seen, pictures in
books, animals heard
about. Drawing pictures
of favourite animals.
Childs
daily
life
stories/ poems on insects,
flyers and crawling
Obser vation, of ants,

flies, spiders, crickets,
cockroaches, earthworms,
lizards and other animals.
Questions
Key Concepts/
Issues
1.4 WORK AND PLAY

Work around me
What are the different
kinds of work done
around me? What work
does my mother/ father/
brother/ sister etc. do?
What work do I do? What
work do others do? When
I am not working what do
I do? When my father/
mother is not working
what do they do?
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
animals (NBT)
Discussion about them,

where they live, what they
eat, insect bites (wasp) etc.
Drawing some of them.
Exploring childrens ideas

of birds-their living
places, eating habits,
common features like
feathers and sounds
produced by them.
Feeding birds.
Childs
daily
life
stories/ poems on birds
(NBT)
Drawings of birds;
mimicking different neck
movements and sounds
of birds, collecting
feathers.
Different occupations,
idea of working time and
leisure time; work inside
and outside homes
gender, age, caste,
economic, etc. aspects.
Poem Home work by Draw a daily time-chart

Shyam Bahadur Namra
for your father, mother
Case study: time chart of and yourself, discussion.
the daily routine of a child
who does a lot of
housework
them hide? Which insects

can crawl and also fly?
Which ones bite us? Can
flies make us ill? Why does
a spider make a web?
Birds
Which are the birds you
see around your area? Do
they like some trees more
than others? What do they
eat? Can you recognize
birds by their feathers?
What are the different
Syllabus sounds they make?
for
Are they saying something
Classes
to each other? Are there
at the
Elementary some birds that come
Level
from other places?
102
Do you feed any birds or
place water for them?
Questions
Working children
What kind of work was
done by children when
your grandparents were
young? Has that changed
today? Who are the
children you know who
work and go to school/
who work and cannot go
to school?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
Sensitize children to other

children who work at
home and outside - not as
a result of family neglect
but more as a systemic
cause.
Important that all children
go to school.
A sense of how child
labour existed in other
countries before all
children began to go to
good common schools.
Excerpt from story by

Charles Dickens.
Narrative describing a
poor childs/child laborers
experience in a common
school in another country.
Reading and listening

to the story/excerpts.
Discussion and narratives
about children making
firecrackers at Shivkashi.,
child workers at Dhabas
and auto workshops.
103
Syllabus
for
Games we play
Classes
at the
What games do I play? Leisure; games in school Traditional and local Listing, classifying indoor
Elementary
and outdoor games.
Did my grandparents play and outside, past and games; folk toys
Level
the same games? Are these present; for some play is
work
indoor/outdoor?
2. Food
Foods from plants and
animals
Which of these is food
red ants, birds nests,
snakes, bananas, goats
milk, etc.?
What plants do you eat what parts of the plant?
What food do we take
from animals?
Appreciation of cultural Regional narratives and

diversity in food; basic stories about unusual
ideas about various plant foods mentioned.
used as food; food from
animals.
Listing and discussing

about food we do or do
not eat; tabulating food
we take from different
plants and animals.
Observing and drawing
different parts of plants
eaten.
Cooking
What do you eat that is not Food may be eaten raw Songs/poems on food or Listing raw and cooked
cooked? What is eaten or cooked - steamed, lack of food; local food; discussion on
Questions
only when cooked? How

do you cook food? What
do you cook it on? What
are the different kinds of
vessels used for cooking?
What are they made of ?
Is water used in all forms
of cooking? Which food
is cooked without using
water? How?
Eating in the family
Do all members of the
family eat the same food
Syllabus in your family? Who eats
for
more? Who eats last in
Classes
your family? Who buys
at the
Elementary the food and what is
Level
bought from the market?
104
Who cooks the food in
your family? What do
babies have for food?
When do babies start
eating and what do they
eat other than milk?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
boiled, baked, fried etc.; knowledge about what is cooking

methods/
Different fuels, types of edible; photographs.
materials, etc; survey to
stoves; Types of vessels
find out the types of
used in cooking, different
fuels/vessels
used;
shapes
(regional/
drawing various utensils;
traditional), different
historical time line tracing
materials, etc.
what in the kitchen has
changed and roughly
when.
Different eating practices

in the family. Amount of
food varying with gender,
age, physical activity, etc.
Cooking and gender/
caste roles in the family;
Food for the baby,
significance of milk.
Everyday experience, local

knowledge.
Poems/
illustrations on gender
stereotyping.
What animals eat

Do animals eat the same Food of domestic and Stories, cartoons and films.
things? What do different wild animals; care of
animals eat? Do you feed domestic animals.
the animals around you what? What do they take
from your house even
when not fed?
Observation and asking

adults, discussion. Listing
of food items bought
from the market/grown
at home.
Obser ving and listing

different animals and their
feeding habits,; Discussing
food given to animals.;
observing animals being
fed, keeping food out and
observing animals come
and feed.
Questions
3. Shelter
Houses and houses
Have you seen - a house
on stilts, a tent, a flat on
the tenth floor, a house on
wheels or a house on a
boat?
Do you know anyone
living in such houses? Why
do people use such
houses?
Decorating and
cleaning our shelter
How do you decorate
your shelter? Do you draw
designs on your walls/
floor or decorate with
leaves/flowers/other
objects? How do you
keep your house clean?
Do you also help in
cleaning? Who mops and
sweeps it? Where do you
throw the garbage? Do
you have any problems
living in your house during
rains, summer or winter?
Have you seen houses with
sloping roofs? Why are
they made sloping?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
Some unusual houses, a

narrative and a discussion
about why such houses are
built. Different types of
houses
Need for shelter, need for
living together
Pictures of different types

of houses; easily available
materials for model
making.
Discussion; observation;
Drawing, model making
and art work. Creative
writing about imagined
experiences.
105
My house, Houses/ Illustrations of designs/

shelters are decorated in motifs
used
for
different ways in different decoration of the house.
cultures; Need for shelter
to provide protection
from heat, cold, rain and
problems faced.
Need to share housework.
Garbage disposal.
Syllabus
Draw a picture of your
for
house. Draw the various
Classes
at the
kinds of designs/motifs
Elementary
used to decorate walls/
Level
floors of houses.
My family and other

animals
Who all live with you? Family members; pets and Daily life experiences. Discussion and sharing
Which animals live with other animals, insects, Cartoons.
of experiences and
Questions
Key Concepts/
Issues
you - which are the biggest

and the smallest animals
living in your house? From
where do they get their
food? Where in your
house do these animals
live? Which of them are
seen only at night?
rodents, etc. Food for the
Mapping my
neighbourhood
How big is your school?
What kind of a building is
it? Can you draw a picture
Syllabus of your school and your
for
classroom ? Do you know
Classes
your way around your
at the
Elementary neighbor-hood? Can we
Level
explain to someone how to
106
reach the post office or the
bus stand from our house?
4. Water
Water for my family
What are the main sources
of water in your locality?
Who fetches the water and
from how far? Do all the
people in your locality use
the same source of water?
Are some people not
allowed to take water
from where you take it?
From where do you get
water? Does it look clean
enough for drinking?
Suggested
Resources
knowledge. Drawings of
insects, rodents; pets and
other domestic animals.
pets and other animals.

Some are seen only at
night.
Neighbourhood,
mapping and
representation in two
dimensions. Directions.
Survey of different parts Estimating distances,

of the school, survey of marking location of
places and drawing/
the neighbourhood
mapping from different
perspectives, like from the
top, from the front etc,
Draw a map of the route
from our house to the
nearest shop.
Local sources of water; Childs daily life experience,

uses of water; gender local knowledge
roles; distance estimates;
social discrimination; clean
water for drinking
Suggested
Activities
Listing the sources of

water, Exploring by
asking questions from
elders or people around,
Discussion.
Questions
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Do animals and plants

need water?
What happens if plants Water for plants and Library resource-brief
information about the
and animals do not get animals.
camel, cactus along with
water how do you see
their pictures.
that a plant or animal is
thirsty? Do all animals/
plants need the same
amount of water? Which
plants/animals need the
least?
Suggested
Activities
Reading, Discussion;
Comparison of a well
watered and a wilting
plant.
Water shortage
107
When is it difficult to get Water scarcity, wastage Newspaper clippings Poster making/ writing
Syllabus
water? Are there some and recycling, water about water shortage/ activity in groups with a
for
water being wasted.
message of saving water.
people in your area who harvesting.
Classes
at the
always face water
Elementary
shortage? What would
Level
happen if we had no
water? Have you seen
water being wasted
how? How can we avoid
it? Do you reuse water?
Water in our lives
Which of your daily
activities use water? Do
you and others you know
wash your hands and feet
before you enter the
house? Why do you think
this is done?
Can you describe the scene
of a rainy day with
details about birds, animals,
plants and yourself.
Use of water in different

activities;
cultural
expressions about water/
rain/ rivers; observations
related to rain and the
response of plants and
animals.
Library
resources,
observations related to
daily life. Songs about
water/river/rain?
Enacting
different
activities that utilise water/
a rainy day, listing the
activities in which water is
used, singing rain/river/
water
songs/poems
together in the class.
Questions
Storing water
How do you store water
in your home? Do you
collect rainwater - how?
How much water do you
store every day? About
how much do you use for
drinking or bathing? In
what kinds of containers
do you store water for
drinking/ washing/or for
animals? What are the
containers made of ?
If the water is at the same
Syllabus level in a narrow and a
for
broad container does it
Classes
mean they contain the
at the
Elementary same amount of water?
Level
108
5. Travel
Going places
Has your family traveled
together to another
place? Where and what
for? How did you go?
How long did it take?
How far did your
grandparents (or other
elderly persons) travel
when they were young?
How did people travel in
those times? How do
people travel today in the
desert, hilly areas,
on sea, etc.
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Measurement of volume Childs

daily
life
in terms of non-standard experience, bottles of
units such as buckets, pots, different shapes/sizes/
etc.
Estimates
of materials; Panchtantra story.
quantities used for
different
domestic
activities; safe handling of
water. Containers made
of different shapes and
materials to store water
for different purposes;
Conceptual development
of conser vation of
volume.
Suggested
Activities
Drawings of different
containers.
Measurement activities;
demonstration to help the
understanding
of
conservation of volume.
Touching
different
containers and discussing
about their material.
Need for travel, travel Story of a journey along Reading and Discussion,
Drawing a village / sea/
within the locality and the river, mountain, etc.
forest /mountain scene.
beyond; travel to different
social spaces forest,
village, city, etc.; travel for
migration, sight-seeing,
family occasions.
Questions
Ways to travel
How do we go to school?
How do we travel to other
places? How many
different ways have we
travelled? How many
different ways of travel
do we know of ?
Have you been to a railway
station? What all do you
seen there? Who are the
people who work at the
station and on the train?
How did people travel in
the past?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
Different modes of Pictures of modes of Collect pictures of

transport; short distance, transport;
different modes of
long distance, newer ways
transport; classify them
of traveling.
into different types of
Different kinds of
transport; enact a train
workers associated with
journey/railway station,
railways/station.
Observations of activities
at the station like loading,
weighing, washing trains,
signaling, selling tea, level
crossing, etc
109
Talking without
speaking
If I cannot speak, how do Communication without Sign language, dance Playing dumb charades,
I tell people what I want speaking, Use of sign mudras.
enacting situations without
language, dance mudras.
to say?
speaking, learning sign
language, practicing mudras.
Mailing a letter
What happens when I
post a letter? How does it
reach my friend? Who are
the people who help to do
this? Are there any other
ways of sending a
message? How was a letter
sent in the past?
Letter as a means of
communication, work
and people associated
with the post office;
different means of
communication, changes
with time.
Syllabus
for
Classes
at the
Elementary
Level
Local post office, different Trip to local post office,

samples of letters- inland, Obser ving
sorting,
post card, greeting card, stamping, weighing etc.
etc. Discussion with
workers at the post office.
Questions
6. Things we Make
and Do
Pottery
What kinds of pots do we
see around us? What
containers are used to
store grain? What kinds of
containers did people
make long, long back with
rings of clay- when they
did not have a potters
wheel? Can you make such
pots and dry them in the
sun how long do you
think these will last? How
does the potter bake them?
Syllabus
for
Classes
at the
Elementary Textiles
Level
In how many different
110
ways can you wear a long
cloth that is not stitched?
How many kinds of sarees
or lungis have you seen
worn by people from
different parts of the
country?
How many different
colours do we know of
how many new ones
can we create? What are
fast colours and what
problems do we face
when colours run? How
do we make our own
vegetable block prints
and tie and dye?
Key Concepts/
Issues
Suggested
Resources
Suggested
Activities
To meet basic needs

human beings make
things; need natural
resources, creativity; have
changed the way we live.
An idea of the earliest
pots made for storage of
grain when there was
no potters wheel.
The experience of making
such pots with clay; drying
and the need to bake
them for greater strength.
Narratives and illustrations

of pots and containers
made in early times with
rings of clay (e.g., Social
Studies book by Eklavya).
Making pots of clay; also

with rings; with different
types of clay; drying in the
sun; talking to potters or
brick makers to find out
how these are burnt/
baked in furnaces.
Making different
ornaments etc. with clay.
Diversity in types of
clothing we were; even
with unstitched clothing.
Colours and design are
used in textiles; scope for
creativity; vegetable dyes.
The idea of different styles

of dress; traditional
unstitched clothing and
different styles of draping
it.
Some idea of mixing
colours to make new ones;
fast colours and colours
that run; tie and dye; block
printing and making our
own
blocks
with
vegetables.Samples of
blocks, dyes.
Activity to wear/drape a
dupatta or long cloth in
different styles to emulate
what different people do
and also to create their
own designs.
Play with colours and
colour mixing;Using dyes
to dye cloth; making
blocks with potato or
ladies fingers for printing
on paper.

Cbse Class 3 Ncert Evs Syllabus - 0

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Cbse Class 3 Ncert Evs Syllabus - 0

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

1. Family and Friends

Concept of a family; Childs

Whom do I look like?

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Family photographs; Discussion About stories/

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Sensitivity to the old and

Meri bahen sun nahin sakti

Reading and discussion;

Exploring childrens ideas

height? Are there any two

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Leaves in our lives

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Leaf diversity colour, Childs

Some creepy crawlies

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Obser vation, of ants,

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

1.4 WORK AND PLAY

Discussion about them,

Exploring childrens ideas

Poem Home work by Draw a daily time-chart

them hide? Which insects

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Sensitize children to other

Excerpt from story by

Reading and listening

Appreciation of cultural Regional narratives and

Listing and discussing

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

only when cooked? How

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

boiled, baked, fried etc.; knowledge about what is cooking

Different eating practices

Everyday experience, local

What animals eat

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Observation and asking

Obser ving and listing

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

Some unusual houses, a

Pictures of different types

My house, Houses/ Illustrations of designs/

My family and other

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM

DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.STUDIESTODAY.COM